Dan Mcaulay
Co-Founder at App Vitals
California, United States
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Top SchoolDan Mcaulay is a seasoned software leader and founder with 14 years of experience building resilient, production-grade systems across startups and large enterprises. As Co-Founder of App Vitals and former founding engineer at an AI-native startup, he blends hands-on backend engineering (Python, Go, FastAPI) with AI/LLM infrastructure, DevOps, and technical leadership to ship real-time chat, voice, and knowledge-driven workflows. At Alto and Uber he drove large-scale migrations, platformization, and global payment and integration platforms, repeatedly turning monoliths into maintainable services. An active open-source contributor, he has improved critical tooling like Chrome OS package management and contributed configuration and path-resolution enhancements to Uber’s fx framework—work that reflects a pragmatic focus on robustness and developer ergonomics. Based in California and steeped in EECS training from UC Berkeley, he combines deep systems experience with a founder’s operational perspective and a knack for documenting and sharing the engineering journey.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) EECS, Bachelor of Science (BS) EECS at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (25)
application-framework10
package-management10
configuration-management10
environment-variables10
go10
chromeos10
dependency-injection10
paths9
testing9
resolutions9
go-testing9
linux9
rpath9
ruby8
automation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
uber-go/fx
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
A dependency injection based application framework for Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 10 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the `uber-go/fx` framework, focusing on configuration management, environment variable handling, and path resolution within the application. They added features like the `APP_ROOT` environment variable and `ResolvePath` helper, and improved the handling of configuration files. In addition to these core framework changes, the user updated dependencies.
dependency-injectiongogolangframeworkapp-framework
chromebrew/chromebrew
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Package manager for Chrome OS
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 issue in 10 days
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the package management system by adding new packages and dependencies. They added packages like `bison`, `gawk`, and `patch`, which are crucial for building software. They also added a dependency for `bison` on `diffutils`. Furthermore, they added error checking around `Kernel.system`, improving the robustness of the package management process.
chromeospackage-managerchromebookcrewlinux
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